Hi everyone. 1. My PC133 sticks are running at 3,3,3,6 (at about 150MHz) but I cannot make them run at 2,2,2,6 (through bios/asus p4b) though it's supposed to be CL2 RAM. Why? 2. I just sold 2x 128mb sticks and bought instaid 2x 512mb sticks for a grand total of 1280mb. Is it worth keeping that last extra 256mb stick or should i just sell it too and keep that nice gig? Will those 256mb EVER make a difference? (PC use: general multimedia + gaming + some corel/photoshop). Note: All RAM sticks match now, all are hard-to-find Infineon 7,5ns sticks, just keep em all? Peace.

Just keep them all because you wont get much for a 256mb stick. Why can't you set the option? Is it greyed out, not there or simply resets the settings on boot? Matt matt@bbcomputing.co.uk www.bbcomputing.co.uk

No, I actually CAN set it through the bios and the system boots fine (it crashed once though, because it's o/c'd maybe?), but when I check the latency values on either AIDA32 or Everest it tells me everything's still 3,3,3,6. Are these readings wrong then? - And about those "extra" 256mb I have, well funny enough I could get about US$50 since it's such a "rare" model. Peace.

1. You can't get them to run at CAS2 because you're running the memory bus at 150MHz. Back off to 133MHz & I'll bet you can tighten up on your timings. 2. The RAM queston is a tough one. 1GB is plenty & I doubt the extra 256MB matters much one way or the other. I don't know what you had to pay for 2 x 512MB of PC133, but personally, I would have invested in a new board & 2 x 512MB of PC3200 instead, then sold off the old board/RAM (unless you have another use for it). Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz 768MB PC3200 Asus A9550 128MB/128-bit Gamer Edition WinME/WinXP Pro

Jam - Yeah, I have my system running at 18x 110ish since the damned multiplier is locked on my chip. And it DOES make quite a difference regarding performance, specially in gaming. - But I'll set it at it's original clock speed (18x100MHz) just to check this latency issue. Thanks for the tip. - And I got a pretty good deal an my new ram, still it was the same price as a nice CL2,5 pair of 512's pc2300, true (about US$95). But my system runs great (all things concidered) and I have attachment problems with it as well, and I didn't really want to replace mobo, cpu and ram right now. Hey, upgrading is always good but who said a system has to be top of the line in order to be able to fully enjoy it. So there you go. Peace.

And yeah I guess I'll try sell those extra 256mb to get some of my money back from that gig I just bought, I'll upload it tonight on amazon and see if someone bites for US$45 or so, if not I'll just keep it where it is. ...By the way, after 1280mb installed why the hell does my system keep using "virtual memory" from the HDD? Is there a manual setting for that somewhere? Peace.

In order to control the virtual memory used by your system, right click on My Computer>Properties>Advanced> under Performance click Settings>Advanced> under Virtal Memory click the change button and in here you can set the size of the page file Windows uses for virtual memory. You can turn it off, but I don't know if I would. Just depends on how aggressive you want to be. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein